What i did
This week we continued to work on the mahcine. I assited with things that needed done but since the machine was assembeld quite quickly there was not much needed to be done other
than programming and troubleshooting
things for fine tuning for it to work. I Dremmeld a key on the shaft of the stepper motor NEMA 17
so it could key on the gear for the drive belt since the hot glue had little or no hold but in the early phase of it did its job. Then i became desingnated button pusher when the thingys needed reprogramming.
and just contributed to small fixes and changes of the machine.
Here is a link to the machine week page Link
The team dynamic
In the beginning there where sheduling problems atleast for me since i only had the evenings free also i had to work overtime and things where planed kindof inconvenietly for everybody so not everyone were present
for all of the builds and dession making so there were some that were unnhappy or confused to what we were gona do for a project but it was in the idea stage so i did not understand why that was a problem.
tho in the end of the build people had come togeather to finish up the machine, but yeha some contributes were quite signfificant while others minor or none in that stage.
and i sensearly commend the programmers for their work on it for taking charge of that and pulling that all togeather.
My ideas for the machine
I would have liked to see it make a Zen Garden machine just becouse of the humor in it that someone built a machine to create a Zen garden when its suposed to me medateative for a person to make it
Tho making a machine like that would be medatative for me. Also since we are right next door to a Pizza place a pattern Pizza cutter :P